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Mercury

Engraving
1530-50 (published)
Artist/Maker
Beham, Sebald (printmaker)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (printed)

Plate 6.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Allegory
Prints
Object type
Engraving
Titles
  • Mercury (assigned by artist)
  • The Seven Planets (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Hans Sebald Beham, Mercury. One of 7 plates from a suite of showing the 7 planets. German, 1530-50.
Physical description
Plate 6.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 7.3cm
  • Cut to width: 4.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Numbered '6' in the upper centre of the plate.
  • Lettered 'MERCVRIVS' on a banderole in the upper centre of the plate.
  • Signed with the monogram 'HSB' in the lower left of the plate.
  • Lettered in the lower centre of the plate: 'MERCATORVM . FAVTOR'
Bibliographic references
  • F. W. H. Hollstein German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Gouda: Koch and Knuttel, 1955): vol. 3, pp.290.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1231-1926

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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